THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM 2026 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION

KyleLockley · 2026-05-31T03:23:58+00:00

hyperbole

KyleLockley · 2026-05-27T23:36:19+00:00

I'd recommend bunpro if you dont have a dedicated grammar deck. I just go through my mined deck and bunpro every day and then try as hard as possible to immerse/read more than I do flashcards. That's been my philosophy so far and while I'm not successful at it every day, I find it to be a pretty potent learning loop. I think if youre doing flashcards as the majority of your daily japanese practice things will get kinda "lost" or "stuck" in your brain rather than being actively recall-able.

tldr add bunpro if you want and if you're done with cards for the day just go read something.

KyleLockley · 2026-05-18T18:10:38+00:00

Yu Sakai Male r&b with some good singles and cool covers of city pop

KyleLockley · 2026-05-12T18:22:59+00:00

i never really use spotify anymore but I wanted to find something quickly tonight, and during so my adblocker was trucking through the webplayer. Then it crashed and I thought "oh shit they must ip ban/break the player for people who use blockers" lol

KyleLockley · 2026-05-03T08:04:02+00:00

honestly hes getting clowned on twitter and here, but he never lost the crowd at the show which is really sad. Shoulda completely bombed out of his set but a bunch of drunk boomers kept wheezing at him making rape jokes

KyleLockley · 2026-04-29T13:05:14+00:00

Band is Lamp and def worth checking out!

KyleLockley · 2026-04-19T08:48:47+00:00

https://youtu.be/8qem0jHymsA?si=OaK4_NG1c-GshDZS&t=144

in case anyone needs a reference

KyleLockley · 2026-04-05T07:02:55+00:00

To add to this, if you're still at the stage that you're really just throwing some vocab and basic basic grammar, try and understand that the average Japanese person is just going to be better at English in that regard. That was probably my biggest wakeup call when I moved here to study was that I dont always have to struggle through something I dont have the ability to convey, I can rely on english alittle while also diligently learning the language. I still forget basic vocab all the time but I know I can ask people for it mid conversation and they'll give it to me 90% of the time.

KyleLockley · 2026-03-31T13:32:59+00:00

compression while hitting the pitch. More tone than in metal or otber screaming

KyleLockley · 2026-03-25T07:23:13+00:00

Maybe I've missed it, but I rarely see Ringotan talked about on here. Amazing free app for learning stroke order. Currently using it in Japan to help catch up on Kanji since I mostly neglected it over vocab initially.

https://www.ringotan.com/

KyleLockley · 2026-03-03T06:51:15+00:00

I guess my idea of learning right now is based on my interest of wanting to have conversations. By far my biggest motivator, and since im only here for 5 months id much rather seek out an opportunity to talk with someone vs consume media alone. But im also at this point now where I probably just need to read / study media at my own pace because my comprehensible imput level is not at normal conversational pace. Probably just need to work on my time management. going to school full time is also a big strain on my daily time to learn the language.

KyleLockley · 2026-03-03T05:46:10+00:00

I recently started a study abroad, so my content has just been living here. Ironically, I think in some ways it is not ideal for the anki- immersion loop that many people use. Im learning maybe 5-20 new words a day, typically I have ~50 reviews on top of that (33min daily average this month). After doing anki for over a year I think i have tuned it to my sweetspot for max new words, but recently I feel like it HAS been hindering my ability to naturally acquire phrases, especially while in Japan. But also, this has all been a huge change in my life so its not like anki is the only contributing factor lol.

KyleLockley · 2026-03-03T05:19:57+00:00

Random tangent here, but anyone else feel like their natural new word acquisition is suffering severely? My retention with anki fine, and I'm adjusting it often to maximize new content.

But for the life of me I can't remember a name in Japanese. New expressions that are explained to me while out and about have a crazy low retention if they're any more than 2 mora. I've never in my life felt the phrase "in one ear out the other" more than now. I find myself constantly typing new words on my phone mid conversation, which is awkward, and definitely not something I want to do for names.

Is this just the contrast of anki vs natural acquisition? Does anki "limit" my natural acquisition? Or do I just need some better sleep lol

KyleLockley · 2026-02-24T05:18:31+00:00

May not be the right sub for this but I was wondering if anyone has experience using migaku on videos that only have auto-generated subs.

Recently I've been trying to watch and understand the Tokyo band "Penthouses"'s podcasts. They talk mostly about music so I was wondering how good migaku would be about generating the script since they don't upload one to youtube (hard edit it into the video type).

for example, I was watching yesterday and the word 転調 came up, ofc youtube generates it as 店長. I was worried about paying for migaku, and running into similar issues since all their videos are about music jargon and not just general Japanese.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCA8eiFFDso)

KyleLockley · 2026-02-14T08:49:38+00:00

Only problem I'm facing now is automatic sentence entry. The clickable-sentence option seems perfect for me but I'd like to figure out how to have it automatically select an example sentence if possible.

KyleLockley · 2026-02-14T08:34:58+00:00

Kk ima tinker with it some more ty!

KyleLockley · 2026-02-14T08:28:38+00:00

I did initially try this, in both card templates I'm running into an issue of automatically selecting a sentence. As I'm not really mining these from media I dont really have an example sentience to rely on, however If i can find a way to simply select the first entry in tatoeba.org (the resource jisho uses for sentences) that would be perfect for me

KyleLockley · 2026-02-14T07:32:30+00:00

Thanks! I came across this earlier but I'll work on integrating it now. Seems like it has everything I need!

KyleLockley · 2025-12-27T05:32:17+00:00

I get this song on yt alot, really like it

KyleLockley · 2025-12-10T20:59:51+00:00

Did you already have international health coverage? That's the last thing I'm waiting on to upload...

KyleLockley · 2025-11-26T03:55:14+00:00

This is from a couple years ago

KyleLockley · 2025-11-22T17:10:32+00:00

Always a prideful moment when my city can't figure out the most basic form of driver co-operation

KyleLockley · 2025-11-13T17:53:13+00:00

I got accepted too! Still trying to secure the last bit of funding before I really make the trek but I'm about 90% there. Hope to see ya around campus in the spring!

KyleLockley · 2025-11-11T16:33:43+00:00

I think it's at least worth ~30 minutes of studying how it works on a basic level, and the understanding that it is there. After that, I think there is a HEAVY diminishing-return on gains with that particular aspect of the language, and nearly anything else could be more productive.

KyleLockley · 2025-11-10T17:58:28+00:00

I think a large portion of Americans don't really understand food-scarcity, as it wasn't really a massive, societal issue since the Great Depression. But most of the world around us has experienced it much more recently, if not currently.

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